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The Anger Clinic was established in 1972 by Mitchell H. Messer, M.A. Its purpose was to fill the gap left by most practitioners who were reluctant to concentrate on anger issues. The feeling among counselors then was that anger was a “secondary” emotion, a distraction from the “real” issues confronting their clients. Most often, they sidestepped anger because of its volatility, intensity and destructive potential. Typically, anger was medicated out of existence, denied or punished. One symptom of mismanaged anger stems from suppression. People hold back their anger completely until it builds out of control and explodes, often at the wrong time and for the wrong reason. The headlines are full of these events: Child abuse, domestic violence, suicide, homicide, mass murder.
The Anger Clinic Process
The Anger Clinic process begins with identifying the situations that trigger anger attacks that are out of proportion to the presenting problem. The Anger Clinic gives people permission to have this unpleasant but perfectly normal emotion. Then, the Anger Clinic relieves their frustration by giving them a choice: a more constructive way of getting this painful pressure out of their system.
People on the receiving end of mismanaged anger are also in pain. The Anger Clinic teaches them how to stop behaving in ways that make the situation more painful than it is already.
 One of our anger management tools is the power of choice. People keep making the same mistakes because no one ever told them what their other options are. They come in to the Anger Clinic feeling discouraged and unable to cope. After people meet with us about managing their anger, they leave with many new choices and specific new tools. They can’t wait to try them out on their jobs or at home with their spouses, their parents, or their kids. They come back with reports of their successes and they want to know more, so we tell them. The more successes they have, the better their relationships become, and the better they feel about themselves.
Empower Yourself with Anger Clinic Techniques
We teach people how to use an anger situation to strengthen our most important and most overlooked relationship: our relationship with ourselves. We learn to stop being afraid of our anger and to start seeing negative situations as opportunities to do something productive and constructive for both ourselves and our loved ones.
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Mitch Messer appeared on WBBM-TV Channel 2 in Chicago, Jan. 25, 2004. Click to see video. | |
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